Projects
During the 1990s,Murray developed a segment on Amiens Cathedral for the Art Humanities curriculum at Columbia. Amiens was studied by "virtually every student [...] as a part of their Art Humanities curriculum”at Columbia. [14] When Murray began teaching there,the lack of available visual resources for teaching and studying the Cathedral led him to create the Amiens Cathedral Imaging Project. [n 2] It was the inaugural project for the Visual Media Center,both of which were supported with a funding from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). [13] The multimedia website consisted of computer-generated images and animations,drawings,and photographs of the cathedral. The website also contained recreations of the Medieval composer Pérotin's music,primary documents associated with the cathedral,supplemented by secondary information from Murray's own monograph. [14]
After the success of the Amiens Project,the Media Center launched the History of Architecture website, [n 3] which built upon Murray's project. The website is a database of visual images,in the format of QuickTime VR panoramas ('nodes') of various buildings from across the world,representing a wide range of architectural styles. The aim of the project was to provide digital resources for teaching architectural history in American schools. The project was funded by the NEH,the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Office of the Provost at Columbia University. [15]
In 2008,Murray and Andrew Tallon led the Mapping Gothic France project, [n 4] funded by a four-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. [10] The website is a database of over 30,000 digital images,covering 200 Gothic cathedrals in France and England. Other features include plans,elevations,history,and bibliography related to each individual buildings. As of 2017,funding for the project had ended and some of the website's content remained incomplete. [7]
